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CFA: Stork Awards in German Studies (Deadline 1 March 2023)
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ANN: Yad Vashem Studies on-line
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Call for Contributors in German Studies | Brill
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CFP GSA 2023 "Comparison Literature Revisited: Genres, Forms, Media", October 5–8, 2023, Montréal ( Deadline 15.03.2023)
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GSA 2023 Panel: "Autobiographical and Autofictional Writing in the Works of Günter Grass" (15 March 2023)
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ANN: Sprache(n) als Differenzkategorie in der Diversity Education reflektieren und thematisieren (27./28.3.2023)
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 23 January - 30 January
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 23 January - 30 January
TOC (Journal): Glossen 49 (2022)
Glossen (https://blogs.dickinson.edu/glossen/) announces its December 2022 issue, which initiates a four-volume series of teaching materials on four Wenderomane. These volumes include scholarly articles, interviews, bibliographies, ideas for discussion, reception, and biographies associated with four lesser-known novels about the Wende. All four volumes are accompanied by references, videos, glossaries, and other materials about the period of reunification.
CFP: DEFA Summer Film Institute 2023, Amherst (Deadline Feb 10)
Dear Colleagues,
We are cordially inviting you to apply to our next Summer Film Institute!
Call for Applications
Hidden Figures: Blackness and Black Experiences in East Germany
11th Biennial Summer Film Institute – June 11-17, 2023
DEFA Film Library
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
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Recent Reviews
Ruble on Bruce, 'Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class'
Emily C. Bruce. Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class. Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. Illustrations. 224 pp.
Zima on Thurman, 'Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms'
Kira Thurman.
Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 368 pp.
$32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5984-0. 
Reviewed by Jeremy Zima (Wisconsin Lutheran College) Published on H-German (January, 2023) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Nielsen on Lehmann, 'The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century'
Matthias B. Lehmann.
The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2022. 400 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-3030-7.
Short on Grimmer-Solem, 'Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919'
Erik Grimmer-Solem.
Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 668 pp.
$44.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48382-7.
Bruce on Daub, 'The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany'
Adrian Daub.
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 253 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-73773-7; $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-73787-4.
Radu on Johnston, 'Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880'
Jean-Michel Johnston. Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $80.75 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-259894-3; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-885688-7.
Reviewed by Robert Radu (Universität Bonn) Published on H-German (October, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Mueller on Roche, 'The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas'
Helen Roche. The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 544 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-872612-8.
Reviewed by Tim Mueller (Chester and Fourth) Published on H-German (September, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58077
Huff on Ault, 'Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990'
Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiii + 262 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51914-1.
Reviewed by Tobias Huff (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Published on H-German (August, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Chappel on Patch, 'Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980'
William L, Patch. Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 340 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42411-0.
Reviewed by James Chappel Published on H-German (July, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56137
Uekoetter on Treitel, 'Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000'
Corinna Treitel. Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 404 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18802-0; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63839-2.
Reviewed by Frank Uekoetter (University of Birmingham) Published on H-German (May, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)